The result of a burst test of a thinned straight pipe with local thinning is reported. The locally thinned region had a thickness well below the NB-3600 pressure based Design thickness. The burst pressure is compared with the maximum Design pressure obtained from a variety of elastic-plastic analysis methods, such as plastic limit analysis and the Section VIII Div. 2 elastic-plastic design method.
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Design and Analysis
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